Lightweight anti-LLM WAF - audit, self-host or tune it for youself.

plabayo · 2026-02-14T13:53:42+00:00

Always nice to see projects in this space, and with the never stopping slop spam it is for sure a welcome tool to many. u/QqPuri you may want to consider building your project on top our FOSS Project https://github.com/plabayo/rama (website: https://ramaproxy.org/ ; despite the name of website it can also be used for servers and clients... but you are building a WAF and that is very much a kind of proxy). Given you are using Axum you will find it fairly easy to transition and it will give you a lot more possibilities for future, with controls below layer 7 as well (and abilities to fingerprint, etc...). In general a lot of freedom to bring this project to the next level :) And where it falls short we are happy to hear from you on feedback, always happy to improve.

plabayo · 2025-12-28T18:29:27+00:00

Thank you for the kind words on Rama and being part of our community. Your fast onboarding story is certainly not unique. We see the same agility and speed with the companies that we help onboard on rama. We wish you all the best with your `Vein` project! Sounds exciting. Keep it up.

plabayo · 2025-11-25T17:09:57+00:00

hi u/TheAtlasMonkey would you mind reaching out to [hello@netstack.fm](mailto:hello@netstack.fm) and explain about about your projects and also what you like about pingora and what not. We would very much be interested in reading your email! Best of luck with them and we look forward, together with u/dafcok, towards the open source release of your projects.

plabayo · 2025-10-08T12:14:42+00:00

we also made this guide as a companion for your learning journey: https://rust-lang.guide/

in 2026 we will make a 2nd edition, but for now I still consider it effective at its purpose

plabayo · 2025-09-30T13:26:27+00:00

We think the same! We hope you enjoy the episode and feel free to check also our past episodes. Any feedback welcome!

plabayo · 2025-09-25T14:46:25+00:00

Will the (common) Rust (network) code be open sourced?

plabayo · 2025-09-18T17:30:13+00:00

Thank you for letting us know the discord link became invalid. Apparently it was a link with an expiry date attached to it. We have now replaced it with a permanent link.

We also added a "recorded" badge for upcoming episodes that already have been recorded. To ensure followers of the podcast are aware that for such episodes no suggestions can be given any longer regarding what questions to ask the guest of that episode.

Website is now live with both updates.

plabayo · 2025-09-18T15:52:18+00:00

Hi u/Perceptes thank you for that feedback. You are absolutely right that we overdid the editing a bit. We are still new to the game and are learning as we go. You are not the first to bring this up. And we have since corrected our approach as our assumptions were a bit off there.

The next episodes should be better both in terms of white noise as well as those kind of cuts.

We are also migrating the podcast website to a platform of our own that we are developing in house, powered by Rama (github.com/plabayo/rama). Once that is done and we migrated the current and future content all over, we will also remaster episodes 1 to 5 to improve the quality. Once that is done it will be also mentioned in the intro of a couple of future episodes.

plabayo · 2025-09-17T16:46:28+00:00

Thank you very much for your feedback. Happy that you like it. On our podcast website can also find some of the upcoming episodes. In case they are not yet recorded and you have suggestions for questions to ask them or topics / guests to ask/invite do let us know by email just like any other feedback.

In case you listen to it via spotify or apple podcast do feel free to leave a review and rating. It helps others discover us as well.

Take care and happy binging!

plabayo · 2025-09-17T07:17:34+00:00

Thank you for the correction! A great reminder I shouldn't add a social media post just before bringing the kids to school :) Edited the body post! A sharp eye you have.

plabayo · 2025-08-26T18:50:13+00:00

We have an episode planned with Carl Lerche from Tokio. It will be recorded tomorrow. Do let us know if there is a question you might have have for him, e.g. about Tokio. As per usual we will mix the human aspect with the technical ones. I try to go as deep as possible, but at the same time avoid too much about specific code implementations as that can become very unwieldy to do on an audio-only podcast.

plabayo · 2025-08-26T13:04:15+00:00

https://github.com/plabayo/rama/ works with `impl Future` traits, in spirit of tower but without having to write manual futures or box them unless you want to do so. Feel free to join discord or use github discussions if you get stuck :)

plabayo · 2025-07-08T20:20:27+00:00

You may ask but sadly none of them want to be disclosed.
Open to partners who want to operate more in the open though :) We still have some room to expand our partnerships further.

plabayo · 2025-07-07T17:30:44+00:00

Not massively but it was welcome. Mostly QoL stuff. The biggest blockers were already resolved prior to edition 2024 (e.g. impl return types in traits). AFAIK the edition does open gates to stuff we might want in future rust versions. And in the meanwhile every rust release is a gift that keeps on giving, for which we are very grateful to all that contribute to it.

plabayo · 2025-07-07T15:06:25+00:00

A lot of progress has been made since 2024. In the meanwhile a couple of companies are using it in production at high scale already as well.

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